the company coordinates a carpool-type service in san francisco. the service allows users to share their car with others who are nearby for a suggested fee. lyft is hiring now, with plans to expand in l.a. and seattle coming soon. computers and smartphones will soon have the capacity for touching, smelling and feeling. ibm is the brains behind a new line of extremely smart tech products due out during the next 5 years. dr. bernie meyerson, vp of innovation for ibm, recently joined us for an update. > > basically, we are going to change fundamentally how you interact with them. if you think about it, for years we programmed computers. imagine really converting a computer to the point where it can learn from you. so instead of programming it, you teach it. to do that, we are looking at some real innovations in the way you get data into a computer through senses like a human, as opposed to just simply typing in a bunch of instructions. > what kind of senses are you talking about here? > > the classic human senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and tou